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Quotes About Cubes

No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.
~ Srinivasa Ramanujan
Take six cubes and arrange them into the shape of a crucifix. Take two more cubes and stick them on either side of the crucifix, at the point where the cross is made. Now you have a tesseract. A tesseract is a three-dimensional object — a hypercube — unraveled.
~ Alex Garland
Fairies] had faults, but they were perfectly themselves. Vidia, for instance, who was the fastest flier, didn't care about anybody but herself. She was by no means perfect, but she was perfectly Vidia. Fairies were concentrated, like bouillon cubes.
~ Gail Carson Levine
Big cubes, small cubes - it's all ice. I'm not that fancy.
~ Rande Gerber
The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.
~ Hailey Gates
Cocktails should be cold. Cubes. Plural. Not the rapper.
~ Chelsea Handler
If you stare at suds, you'll go crazy. But in soap suds, you'll find bubble cubes and many other forms. I just take those things, magnify them and sometimes blow smoke inside it so you can see it better.
~ Tom Noddy
The problem: affordable housing has to be subsidised, if the 'affordable' bit of the phrase is going to work. The solution: replace every wall, ceiling and floor with a gigantic plasma screen and charge for advertising space. The affordable living room of tomorrow is a futuristic cube with a perpetually looping Go Compare commercial in place of carpets and wallpaper.
~ Charlie Brooker
We make the beet salad by steaming the beets until soft, about thirty minutes, plunging into cold water, and removing the skins. After cutting the beets into small cubes, we toss them with a vinaigrette of orange juice, vinegar, olive oil, and shallots, adding crumbles of goat cheese and green onion, for color and taste and crunch, at the end.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Cantor's discovery that lines, planes, cubes, and polytopes were all equivalent as sets of points goes a long way toward explaining why set theory was such a revolutionary development for math-revolutionary in theory and practice both.
~ David Foster Wallace
Our mother became the living ghost that haunted it, gaunt now and rattling ice cubes instead of chains.
~ David Sedaris
Let's think about the billowing cloud. Just a little bit, okay? It could be dangerous." "Everything in tank cars is dangerous. But the effects are mainly long-range and all we have to do is stay out of the way." "Let's just be sure to keep it in the back of our mind," she said, getting up to smash an ice tray repeatedly on the rim of the sink, dislodging the cubes in groups of two and three.
~ Don DeLillo
Atheists, he came to believe, generally worked in man-made cubes, with blackboards and computers and fast food. They didn't believe in wonders because they never saw any.
~ John Sandford
I can hear the pleasant cracking sound of the cubes fracturing, breaking apart like bone
~ Unknown